Events

National Theatre Live: THE THREEPENNY OPERA
2016-09-29 19:30 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
Mack the Knife is back in town. A darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous musical. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight. Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn’t come home last night and it’s all about to kick off… With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond), as Macheath alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs. Peachum. This bold, anarchic production is brought to you by a creative powerhouse; adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Rufus Norris. Contains scenes of a sexualnature, violence and filthy language.

Resonance Collective Dance Performance
2016-09-30 12:00 - 12:30 | The Great Hall
Erlanger Gardens will come to life with a site-specific performance event invoking the wonder and desire of nature through a visceral landscape of moving bodies and sound. Monmouth University has united visual artist Lucy Kalian, whose work is being shown this semester in the Pollak Gallery and The Resonance Collective; a collaborative interdisciplinary dance and vocal ensemble, bringing our environment to life through stunning imagery and virtuosic physicality. The Erlanger Garden performance will begin at 12:00PM and will feature an original dance and electronic/live vocal piece. This is the beginning of a day-long event culminating in the Pollak Gallery opening of Lucy’s Swells and Soundings exhibit at 6:30PM. Within her exhibit, Lucy explores the tidal forces at work where land and water meet. This exhibit is cosponsored by the Urban Coast Institute.
Erlanger Gardens are located
right outside Wilson Hall. Pollak Theatre will serve as the location for the dance
performance in the event of rain.

CSNsongs "Celebrating The Music Of Crosby Stills Nash & Young"
2016-10-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
“THE ONLY NATIONAL CSN&Y TRIBUTE SHOW OF ITS KIND”  CSNsongs is more than a tribute band. It is a group of seven New Jersey based musicians that create a full production show paying homage to the folk/rock group that changed music in the 1960s and ’70s.” All of “Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s” compositions are highly respected by “CSNsongs” and are reproduced perfectly as they were originally written, recorded and performed throughout Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s musical legacy. The iconic group’s music was born at the famous Woodstock Music Festival when Crosby, Stills and Nash hit the stage and changed the face of folk/rock music forever. Their music continued throughout the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s and is still popular and relevant today. CSN Songs helps audiences relive such special musical moments as Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Ohio, Love the One You’re With, Just a Song Before I Go, and Southern Man.

Art Now Visiting Artist Sheryl Oring: I WISH TO SAY
2016-10-06 11:30 - 16:30 | Magill Commons
Free and Open to the Public
Performance
11:30am-1:30pm, Rebecca Stafford Student Center
Artist’s Talk 4:30pm,
Club Dining Room
After typing more than 2,500 postcards to the President from dozens of campuses and other locations around the country, Sheryl Oring’s I WISH TO SAY is coming to Monmouth to engage students in discussions about politics and social change.
Oring sets up a pop-up public office on campus–complete with a manual typewriter–and invites students to dictate postcards to the next President.
Sheryl Oring’s work examines social issues through projects that incorporate old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion and foster open exchange. Oring’s work has been shown at Bryant Park in New York City; the Berlin Wall Memorial; the Jewish Museum Berlin; the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA; the San Diego Museum of Art; as well as in major festivals such as Encuentro in São Paulo, Brazil, the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Art in Odd Places in New York City. She recently completed a large-scale public art installation at the San Diego International Airport and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Oring is the recipient of grants from Franklin Furnace and Creative Capital. Her forthcoming book Activating Democracy: The I Wish to Say Project is due out in Fall 2016 from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.

Aquila Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing
2016-10-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Shakespeare’s great comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, highlights Aquila Theatre’s 25th anniversary season. Spying, subterfuge, deception, false identities, slander, manipulation and love all take part in this wonderfully entertaining battle of the sexes. Much Ado About Nothing, thought to have been written in 1598, belongs to a group of Shakespeare’s more mature romantic comedies. It is an exuberant, philosophical, and festive play exceling in combative wit, melodrama, and potential tragedy. Much Ado About Nothing is wonderfully intricate, flush with surprising twists and turns, and articulated in expert language. Aquila Theatre’s original Much Ado opened in Boston and toured the United States in 2000/2001. It was performed in 60 American cities, ran for nearly a year including Off Broadway in New York, was performed at the White House for the President and First Lady, and was then revived at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2006. The New York Times described the show as “Outstanding . . . almost unbearable fun. . . gleefully engaging . . . and directed with inspiration.” The New Yorker hailed it as “Just plain cool . . . beautifully spoken, dramatically revealing, and crystalline in effect.” Aquila’s original Much Ado was a Critic’s Choice for Time Out, The Village Voice and The New York Times.
There will be a preshow talk at 6:00 PM with the cast the day of show.

The Lightning Thief
2016-10-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Pollak Theatre
**Last summer’s Off-Broadway production was nominated for an Outstanding Musical from the Lortel Awards and for Best Family Show from the Off Broadway Alliance!**
“The Lightning Thief is an action-packed musical with heroic battles and mythological beasties.” Elizabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
“…everyone enjoyed the loud, funny, fast-paced , wonderfully imaginative musical. This show is a true family-pleaser…” Pete Hempstead, Theatermania
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy has ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
(Approximately one hour in length. Recommended for grades 2-6.) Curriculum Connections: Communication and Language Arts, Literature-Based, Music, Relationships and Family, Social Studies

7th Annual School of Science Dean's Seminar: Dr. Camille ParmesanProfessor at Plymouth University (UK) and National Aquarium Chair in the Public Understanding of Oceans and Human Health
2016-10-07 18:30 - 20:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium

Met Opera: Tristan und Isolde (Broadcast Live in HD)
2016-10-08 12:00 - 14:30 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets On Sale July 20th, 2016

The season
begins with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir
Simon Rattle in his first Live in HD performance. Nina Stemme stars as Isolde—a
touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her
Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the
Met’s Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne
and Evgeny Nikitin as Kurwenal (both in Met role debuts), with René Pape
reprising King Marke, a role he has sung to acclaim in three previous Met
seasons. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double
bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle) is a co-production with the Festival
Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, and China National
Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing.
Run Time: 5:15
Encore: Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 1:00 pm

Jerry Zolten: We Were What We Laughed At! An American Cultural History through the Art of Stand-Up Comedy
2016-10-13 19:00 - 20:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Jerry Zolten, educator, author, musician, roots music historian and producer, also counts among his credits a stint as a stand-up comic. He will give a presentation on the history of stand up comedy that is richly illustrated with rare video performance clips. The talk will explore comedy as it relates to issues including ethnic stereotyping, freedom of speech, social injustice, and race and gender disparity.
Motivated by his love of comedy and the power of the best comedians to shake up thinking on a range of significant social issues, Zolten dug into the history of American stand-up and over the years interviewed and published profiles of luminaries including Carl Reiner, Steve Allen, Dick Gregory, George Carlin, and Woody Allen, to name a few.
His collaborations on roots music projects with noted satirists Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar have led to guest appearances on public radio’s American Routes and as a featured speaker at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame.
He is the author of Great God A’Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music (Oxford University Press), co-editor of Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream (Ashgate), and contributor to The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (Cambridge University Press).
Zolten contributed to two 2015 Grammy-Winning projects, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volumes 1 & 2 (Revenant/Third Man) and The Fairfield Four’s Still Rockin’ My Soul!.
His most recent work includes an article on the centennial of the iconic Martin Dreadnought Guitar for the C.F. Martin Guitar Company’s Martin Journal of the Acoustic Guitar along with a featured on-screen appearance in the documentary film “The Ballad of the Dreadnought” produced by C.F. Martin & Co.

Lucy Kalian Gallery Talk
2016-10-14 16:00 | Pollak Gallery
Lucy Kalian, artist of “Swells and Soundings,” will be having a talk at the Pollak Gallery at 4:00 PM.

BENISE - Strings of Passion: 10 Year Anniversary World Tour!
2016-10-15 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR!
The Prince of Spanish Guitar, BENISE is ‘Bennissimo!’ in this special 10 year anniversary production called “Strings of Passion”. Armed with his fiery Spanish Guitar, a stage full of musicians, and an international dance troupe, BENISE takes us on a musical journey through Salsa, Flamenco, Samba, Waltz and Tango, fused with classic rock anthems by Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Santana and The Eagles…to name a few. The show captures world music at its best, with a show that appeals to the hearts and souls of people of all ages, cultures and musical backgrounds.
“Strings of Passion” – an unprecedented and spectacular adventure through Spanish Flamenco, Cuban Salsa, and Brazilian Samba – raises the standards of live performance to a fresh new level of originality with dancing that is equally mysterious, sensual and festive. The dancers in ‘Strings of Passion’ – ‘The Gitanas’ — were carefully handpicked from a global pool of some of the most brilliantly diverse talent to be found. Breathtaking couture fashion and innovative staging and choreography give Spanish dance a fresh and luminous makeover.
“This is a great show for the whole family; I really think we have something for everyone,” comments BENISE, for whom music has always been a journey…from his humble beginnings as a street performer, to performing around the world. “I wanted to push the boundaries of traditional Nuevo Flamenco/Spanish guitar while combining the elements of dance and theater. This show is a celebration of culture–the culmination of all the shows we’ve done over the last 10 years.”
Go center stage with BENISE in this amazing production that takes your audiences to Spain, China, Paris, Egypt, India, Cuba, Italy, Dubai, the Heartland of America…and more: the Theatrical World Music and Dance Spectacle that has been called “The Latin Riverdance”.
VIP FAN EXPERIENCE – INCLUDED WITH THE GOLD CIRCLE SEATSGo behind the scenes, meet Benise and cast, and get your own photo moment when you attend a working sound check!VIP PACKAGE INCLUDES:* Exclusive Meet & Greet with the Benise and Cast* Premier Seating (first 4 rows)* Private Sound Check Experience* Personal Photograph with Benise* Souvenir Official Meet and Greet Laminate

On Screen/in Person: " You Belong to Me"
2016-10-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
On August
3, 1952, Ruby McCollum, an African-American woman, shot and killed the
prominent white doctor and State Senator-elect C. L. Adams in Live Oak,
Florida. Exploring a case that has
haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades, YOU
BELONG TO ME, Sex, Race and Murder in the South unveils hidden practices,
exposing the truth of what it meant to be an African-American in the Jim Crow
South, and examining the long road to healing.
There will be a post screening Q&A with the producer Jude Hagin.
On Screen/In Person is a program of Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation made possible through the generous support of
the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation visit http://www.midatlanticarts.org.

Bob Dylan: Photographs by Daniel Kramer Curated by the GRAMMY Museum ® at LA LIVE
2016-10-20 09:00 - 2016-12-20 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Curated by the GRAMMY Museum ® at LA LIVE
Curated by the GRAMMY Museum, in cooperation with Daniel Kramer, Daniel Kramer: Photographs of Bob Dylan features more than 40 of Kramer’s photographs from his time on tour with Dylan in 1964 and 1965. Kramer’s photographs are a striking, intimate account of the folk singer’s metamorphosis into a rock star. This photographic “backstage view” of the singer/songwriter showcases key moments in Dylan’s musical career during one of the most dynamic periods in American history. These seminal pictures of Dylan not only revealed the rising young star to international audiences, but set a standard by which all other rock portraits would be judged.
Opening Reception: Nov. 11. from 5-7 PM
Daniel Kramer and Bob Santelli from the GRAMMY Museum will give a talk during the opening reception.

Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
2016-10-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Beloved singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will play a concert featuring music from her acclaimed 2014 album The River & the Thread which garnered 3 Grammy awards in 2015. The recording includes eleven original songs written by Cash and her longtime collaborator—and husband—John Leventhal, who also served as producer, arranger, and guitarist. The River & the Thread evokes the American South’s rich landscape—physical, musical, and emotional—and examines the indelible impressions it’s made on our collective culture and on Cash, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. The songs portray a multigenerational cast of characters—from a Civil War soldier off to fight in Virginia, to a New Deal-era farmer in Arkansas, to a present-day couple in Alabama. While Cash and Leventhal were inspired by the many musical styles associated with the South—Delta blues, gospel, Appalachian folk, country, rock, and others—the resulting collection of songs is contemporary. Cash, who has just been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, has recorded fifteen albums and has charted twenty-one top forty country singles, eleven of which reached number one. A Chicago Tribune reviewer describes Composed, her 2010 memoir, as “one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read.”

Met Opera: Don Giovanni (Broadcast Live in HD)
2016-10-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Pollak Theatre
Simon
Keenlyside makes his Met role debut as the unrepentant seducer in Tony Award
winner Michael Grandage’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece. Met Principal
Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that includes Hibla Gerzmava as Donna Anna,
Malin Byström as Donna Elvira, Serena Malfi as Zerlina, Adam Plachetka as
Leporello, Matthew Rose as Masetto, Kwangchul Youn as the Commendatore, and
Rolando Villazón in his Live in HD debut as Don Ottavio.

Run Time: 3:45

Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age - Live in HD
2016-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
In a seaside town where business and mafia are flourishing, The Golden Age cabaret is the favorite nightly haunt of dancers, bandits and young revelers, where the young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita, a beautiful dancer, but also the friend of a local gangster…

A satire of Europe during the Roaring 20s, The Golden Age makes for an original, colorful, and dazzling show with its jazzy score and music-hall atmosphere. This ballet that can only be seen at the Bolshoi has everything to it: mad rhythms, vigorous chase scenes, and decadent cabaret numbers. With its passionate love story featuring beautiful duets between Boris and Rita, the Bolshoi dancers plunge into every stylized step and gesture magnificently.
Running time 2:20
Music – Dmitri Shostakovich
Choreography – Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto – Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman
Cast The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet

Art Now: Tim Miller: PERFORMANCE! BODY! SELF! A performance, lecture & rant
2016-10-25 16:30 - 18:00 | Pollak Theatre
Free and Open to the Public
Internationally-acclaimed solo performer Tim Miller is known for his charged performances that tackle challenging social issues, including the culture wars, performance of identity, and queer strategies for the future. Miller shares fierce and funny performance excerpts and speaks about how performance can be used to embolden communities and connect people with one another.
“Tim Miller sings that song of the self which interrogates, with explosive, exploding, subversive joy and freedom, the constitution and borderlines of selfhood. You think you don’t need to hear such singing? You do! You must!” – Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America
Bio: Hailed for his humor and passion, Tim Miller’s solo performances and workshops have been presented all over the world. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS. His theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance (1998) and Sharing the Delirium – Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances (1993). Miller has taught performance in theater departments at UCLA, Cal State LA and NYU. He is a founder of Performance Space 122 in NYC and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.

TUESDAY NIGHT RECORD CLUB: BOB DYLAN'S Blonde On Blonde
2016-10-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss…there will be special guest moderators and panelists at each event!
This discussion will feature BOB DYLAN’S Blonde On Blonde. This event is free but registration is required. Please note this event has moved to Pollak Theatre!

National Theatre Live: THE DEEP BLUE SEA
2016-10-27 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Helen McCrory (Medea and The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders) returns to the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tom Burke (War and Peace, The Musketeers) also features in Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed new production. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbors in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

Homecoming Weekend
2016-10-28 - 2016-10-30
The commemoration takes place Saturday after the 1 p.m. Monmouth vs Kennesaw State matchup at Kessler Field, the final football game planned for the sporting location.
Join the Monmouth community in the OceanFirst Bank Center’s Varsity Club (third floor) as the university closes out 24 seasons of excellence at Kessler Field. Expect to see familiar alumni and coaching representatives from football, track & field and lacrosse. The event is free and will include a cash bar.
If you are planning to attend this reception, please RSVP to srosenbl@monmouth.edu with a count of how many guests you expect to bring.

Monmouth Madness
2016-10-28 18:00 - 19:00 | OceanFirst Bank Center
BELIEVE. COMPETE. SUCCEED.
Join the Monmouth Men’s Basketball team for a preview of the ’16-’17 season. The event will feature giveaways, contests, free food and a chance for fans to meet and greet the university basketball coaches and players.

A Marvelous Night: The Music of Van Morrison
2016-10-29 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
New Jersey’s favorite entertainers will take the stage to share the music of Van Morrison with their friends. Legendary front man Rob Paparozzi (Original Blues Brothers Band, Blood Sweat ‘n Tears) and Master Song Stylist Pat Guadagno (BobFest, The Candle Brothers) will lead an all-star band on a musical journey through the lifework of one of the most influential and unusual artists of our time. Last year’s capacity crowd was mesmerized by an eclectic selection of Morrison’s mystical compositions, performed by an ensemble of Jersey musical nobility that included Pam McCoy, Steven Delopoulos (Burlap to Cashmere) Irish Tenor Steve Reilly, Michael Ghegan (Michael Jackson Cirque de Soleil), John Korba, (Hall & Oates, Phoebe Snow, Roseanne Cash) Tom Labella, Joe Bellia & Jillian Reyes McCoy (John Bon Jovi’s Kings of Suburbia). The memorable evening was highlighted by a surprise visit from ‘the worlds most recorded drummer’ Bernard “Pretty” Purdie. The whole crew is back for a transcendental evening of genre defying music presented by Charles Moran and Christopher Neary on what is sure to be A Marvelous Night ….. You will be healed!
Rock it! is an organization for young musicians ages 8 to 18 will open the evening with a selection of Van Morrison songs.

(Please note this is a rental event and gift certificates and ticket vouchers are not valid on this event)

Met Opera Encore: Tristan und Isolde (Broadcast Live in HD)
2016-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Pollak Theatre
The season begins with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Live in HD performance. Nina Stemme stars as Isolde—a touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the Met’s Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne and Evgeny Nikitin as Kurwenal (both in Met role debuts), with René Pape reprising King Marke, a role he has sung to acclaim in three previous Met seasons. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle) is a co-production with the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, and China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing.
Run Time: 5:15

Visiting Writers: Gerald Stern
2016-11-01 16:30 - 18:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1925 and was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. He is the author of 16 books of poetry, including, most recently, Divine Nothingness (Norton, 2014) and In Beauty Bright (Norton, 2012), as well as This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award and a kind-of memoir of a year in 85 sections titled Stealing History, was published by Trinity University Press in the spring of 2012. Stern was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets, was the 2010 recipient of the Medal of Honor in Poetry by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was inducted into the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the 2012 recipient of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. He was the 2014 winner of the Frost Medal. Stern has two books coming out in 2017, a poetry collection from W. W. Norton called Galaxy Love and a book of non-fiction titled Deathwatch, to be released by Trinity University Press.

Click Clack Moo
2016-11-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale July 1. “Cows that type? Hens on strike!
Whoever heard of such a thing!” Farmer Brown cries.
When his granddaughter Jenny comes for a
visit, Farmer Brown declared the farm a “tech-free zone.” He
confiscates her laptop in the cold barn along with the shivering cows who use
her computer to type messages requesting blankets.
“No way,” replies Farmer
Brown. “No blankets!”
So the cows go on strike and the
chickens join them in solidarity. No blankets: no milk, no eggs!
Will Farmer Brown give in to the
animals’ demands? Will Jenny get her computer back? Find out in a hilariously
“mooooo-ving” musical about negotiation and compromise, based on the
Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin.
(One hour in length,
recommended for grades K -4) Curriculum Connections: Communication and Language
Arts, Literature-Based, Music, Social Studies.

One Last Waltz
2016-11-05 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale July 1. Glen Burtnik,
Salvatore Boyd, Bob Burger & Arne Wendt, performing as The Band. Together
they will be joined on stage by both local and national talent. Recreating not
only the music but the celebration, camaraderie and talent that took over the
stage November 25th back in 1976. The Band’s style of writing and music has
influenced so many artists, bands and songwriters, from the Grateful Dead and
The Beatles to Elvis Costello and Pink Floyd to our own local artists,
throughout the years and continue to do so. This cast will bring you to your
feet and take you back in time. A wise man once said it’s better to burn out
than fade away, and on Thanksgiving Day of 1976, one of the best live acts of
the rock era went out in a blaze of glory. Special Guests include: Vini Lopez, Matt Wade, Bruce Gassman, Puggy Derosa, Emily Grove, Tommy LaBella, Sonny Kenn, StringBean, Fred Scribner, Kate Taylor, Arlan Fieles & more to be announced!

(This is a rental event and gift certificates and ticket vouchers are not valid for this event)

Met Opera Encore: Don Giovanni (Broadcast Live in HD)
2016-11-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale July 20th, 2016
Simon
Keenlyside makes his Met role debut as the unrepentant seducer in Tony Award
winner Michael Grandage’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece. Met Principal
Conductor Fabio Luisi leads a cast that includes Hibla Gerzmava as Donna Anna,
Malin Byström as Donna Elvira, Serena Malfi as Zerlina, Adam Plachetka as
Leporello, Matthew Rose as Masetto, Kwangchul Youn as the Commendatore, and
Rolando Villazón in his Live in HD debut as Don Ottavio.
Run Time: 3:45

On Screen/in Person: Love Thy Nature
2016-11-09 19:30 - 21:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic journey into the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world. Neeson is the voice of Homo Sapiens – our collective humankind – who, in the past few thousand years, has come to believe that we are separate from nature. Through Sapiens’ journey, the film reveals how a connection with nature ignites a sense of meaning and wonder so profound that it touches the very core of what it means to be human. Interweaving mesmerizing imagery and interview footage, Love Thy Nature is a guided tour of our relationship with nature that proposes new approaches to a sustainable future.
There will be a post screening Q&A with the director Sylvie Rokab .
Run time: 1 hour 16 minutes
On Screen/In Person is a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation visit http://www.midatlanticarts.org.

Arlo Guthrie
2016-11-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
On the heels of the sold-out Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour, Arlo Guthrie plunges into another musical trip certain to be a flashback inducing, mind-expanding show. For the Running Down The Road Tour, Arlo will again hit the road with a full band to fully embody the best of Guthrie’s catalogue from the late sixties and early seventies. Featuring the most outstanding cuts from Arlo (1968), Running Down The Road (1969), Washington County (1970) along with others, this tour exemplifies the sound that shaped a generation. Guthrie’s latest tour promises to take the audience back to the most remarkable, far-out era.

Also on November 11 – Come to the opening reception for Bob Dylan: Photographs by Daniel Kramer a gallery exhibition Curated by the GRAMMY Museum taking place from 5-7 PM in the adjacent Pollak Gallery. Daniel Kramer and Bob Santelli from the GRAMMY Museum will give a talk during the opening reception at 6:00 PM.

Spring Awakening
2016-11-11 20:00 - 2016-11-20 23:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
November 11-13 & 16-20
All shows 8 PM except Sun. matinees at 3 PM
The winner of 8
Tony Awards, including Best Musical – told by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
through “the most gorgeous Broadway score this decade” (Entertainment
Weekly) – Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood
with poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable. The landmark
musical is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll
that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in
years. ADULT THEMES AND LANGUAGE: CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIshows.com
